Hrmm....the more and more that Amazon rolls out these services is the more and more tempted I am to go full-hog on AWS.
I only use S3 now - and Heroku - but I am excited about where this will continue going.
The future looks bright and I can't wait until the right application comes along for me to build it on top of a fully scalable infrastructure that I only have to pay as I use.
Totally. Especially since the endgame in any web-facing EC2 architecture is to have stateless nodes behind a load balancer that you can scale up and down as required.
Ideally you'd automatically recreate AMI snapshots whenever your code changes. In other words, erm, Heroku.
I use Heroku and S3 too - Cloudfront took mere minutes to set up and I got an instant and very noticeable latency decrease. It's a CDN that "just works". I'm using it for all projects now.
My suggestion for almost all businesses is to use AWS for S3, SQS, SWF etc and then get dedicated/VPS servers in the same data center. I actually get faster ping times to SQS from my dedicated server than from EC2 (both in US-East).
EC2 is the biggest ripoff going around. And all the other AWS services are some of the most awesome going around.
What are some good dedicated hosting options in US-east? I've tried looking them up but the info is usually buried deep in the hoster's site where it's impossible to find.
I have only been with them a month but I use FastServ. If you search on WebHostingTalk they have offers available and the guy seems pretty knowledgable. I am hoping they don't let me down. Another option is the famous ServerBeach who Youtube used to use as their CDN. Would love to know others.
"You can see that if you utilize the servers 100%, then EC2 is between 2x and 3.3x more expensive than renting servers Additionally looking at the CUs the EC2 images are less powerful than rented hardware, so you probably need more of them."
Same thoughts here. I could never understand why anyone would go with AWS EC2. It is expensive and slow. You could get much better deals from other dedicated providers or cloud providers. Route53 is ok and improving although i would still recommend DNSmadeeasy.
I only use S3 now - and Heroku - but I am excited about where this will continue going.
The future looks bright and I can't wait until the right application comes along for me to build it on top of a fully scalable infrastructure that I only have to pay as I use.